Nynell Evan

"pacifism the ideology of nonviolent political action has become axiomatic and all but universal among the more progressive elements of north america. Always it promises that the harsh realities of state power can be trancended via good feelings and purity of purpose rather than by self defense and resorting to combat. Pacifists with seemingly endless repetition pronounce that the negetivity of the modern corporate-facist state will atrophy through defection and neglect once there is a sufficiently positive social vision to take its place...Known in the middle ages as alchemy, such insistence on the repetition of insubstantial themes and failed experiments to obtain a desired result has long been consigned to the realm of fantasy, discarded by all but the most wishful or cynical (who use it to manipulate people)."